AI RESEARCH
Depth-Aware Rover: A Study of Edge AI and Monocular Vision for Real-World Implementation
arXiv CS.CV
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ArXi:2604.22331v1 Announce Type: new This study analyses simulated and real-world implementations of depth-aware rover navigation, highlighting the transition from stereo vision to monocular depth estimation using edge AI. A Unity-based lunar terrain simulator with stereo cameras and OpenCV's StereoSGBM was used to generate disparity maps. A physical rover built on Raspberry Pi 4 employed UniDepthV2 for monocular metric depth estimation and YOLO12n for real-time object detection.